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Tina Chan, Games Institute member and Master of Sciences alum from the School of Public Health and Health Systems, received the Young Alumni Award 2020 from Applied Health Sciences. The award recognizes an exceptional recent AHS graduate based on their achievements both from their time during the program and afterwards.

Coming up December 3rd, Alex Fleck, English graduate researcher, presents "Communities in Care in Platform Construction: Understanding Video Game Preservation in 2020" for the Digital Scholar Lecture Series. 

The Digital Scholar Lecture Series features emerging digital scholars from McMaster University, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo.

Coming up November 19th, Lillian A. Black, English graduate researcher, presents "It's Queerly Identifiable: Transgender Narrative Reclamation in Overwatch" for the Digital Scholar Lecture Series. 

The Digital Scholar Lecture Series features emerging digital scholars from McMaster University, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo.

Last week on our Discord server, Games Institute members shared podcast recommendations with each other.

Waterloo Stories published a Q and A with GI members 

Dr. Jennifer Roberts-Smith, GI faculty member and professor of Communication Arts, will be giving a talk for the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on October 29th, at 5:30p,m (CT).

First Person Scholar officially announced the instalment of a new Editor in Chief and two Co-managing Editors, steering the middle-state publication into exciting directions and carrying on with the great legacy established by their predecessors.

In her latest article published on Loading..., Lindsay Meaning analyzes the adaptation of the novel Kim (1901), by Rudyard Kipling, into a video game by the same name, Kim (2016). The article "Adaptations of Empire: Kipling’s Kim, Novel and Game" focuses on the ways the video game deals with the underlying imperial and colonial ideologies of the book.

New GI member research published in Frontiers in Computer Science shows that personalized gameful systems lead to higher task performance.

Dr. Lennart Nacke, Director of the HCI Games Group, gave a keynote speech, "The Loot Box of Gameful User Experience", for the virtual Mensch und Computer 2020 conference, Germany's largest HCI conference with 785 participants globally.